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Public Seminar: ‘Desiring Belonging: white anxiety, anti-colonial spatiality and Margaret Somerville’s Body/Landscape Journals’

Public presentation by Dr Lisa Slater (University of Wollongong), with responses from Dr Emily Potter (Deakin) and Professor Lyn McCredden (Deakin)   When: Friday June 15, 3-4.30pm Where:  Deakin Downtown, Level 12/727 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3008   ‘Desiring Belonging: white anxiety, anti-colonial spatiality and Margaret Somerville’s Body/Landscape Journals’   In this paper, I return...

29 May, 2018 / 0 Comments
Environmental Writing Symposium

Environmental writing: creativity and social efficacy Event Details: Date: Thursday, 7 June 2018 Time: 9 am – 5 pm Venue: William Macmahon Ball Theatre Old Arts Building University of Melbourne Parkville 3000 Enquiries: Dr Amanda Johnson: amandaj@unimelb.edu.au Dr Saskia Beudel: Saskia.Beudel@canberra.edu.au Bookings: Bookings are essential for this free symposium. Register at http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/creative Over the course of its...

22 May, 2018 / 0 Comments
Hacking the Anthropocene III: What do we WANT?

The Anthropocene names a new geological epoch where “Man” is a determining cause of planetary systems change. But who and what is missing from this headline of “humans destroying the planet”? In its third iteration, Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton have invited an extraordinary...

03 May, 2018 / 0 Comments
Mycena epipterygia. Image: Alison Pouliot
Fungal Wonders of the Arboretum and Surrounds

The National Arboretum Canberra presents two fungus workshops with natural historian and environmental photographer, Alison Pouliot. These workshops introduce participants to the diversity, ecology and curiosities of the Kingdom Fungi, specific to fungi found in the region, but also within wider Australian and international contexts. They include...

16 April, 2018 / 0 Comments
CFP: Eating the Anthropocene (Macquarie University, 26-27 April 2018)

Eating the Anthropocene: What and how should we eat in a climate changing world? Keynote speaker: Mike Goodman (University of Reading) April 26-27, 2018 Department of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University Further information: https://groundworkgeop.wordpress.com/blog The meatification, standardisation, and globalisation of diets has contributed to food systems and cultures that both...

05 March, 2018 / 0 Comments
Wild Emotions: Affect and the Natural World

Date: 14‒15 December 2017 Venue: Woodward Conference Centre, 10th Floor, Law Building, The University of Melbourne, 185 Pelham St, Carlton, VIC Enquiries: Grace Moore (gmoo@unimelb.edu.au) Convened by: Stephanie Trigg and Grace Moore Whether it is red in tooth and claw or a goddess to be worshipped, nature is always...

15 November, 2017 / 0 Comments
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